Monroeville, AL 36461 Frost Dates
36461, near Monroeville, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/10, roughly 194 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 251 days after the last spring frost.
Monroeville sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Monroeville's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Monroeville's last frost
03/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Monroeville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 251 frost-free days, Monroeville places 7,315 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 194 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36461: local microclimates, on what one yard in Monroeville can differ from the 36461 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Monroeville's frost date answer different questions.